The son of an English diplomat, ROGER MICHELL (Director) was
born in South Africa and as a child lived in Beirut, Damascus and Prague. He
started directing plays at school before going on to Cambridge where he won the
RSC Buzz Goodbody Award at the National Student Drama Festival and a Fringe
First Award at the Edinburgh Festival of 1977. He has subsequently directed
plays at the National Theatre, Old Vic, Donmar, Royal Court, Almeida, the West
End, on Broadway and elsewhere. For six years he was resident director at the
Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford and London. In the early nineties he
began directing for TV and film and his work includes Buddha Of Suburbia,
Persuasion, Titanic Town, My Night With Reg, Notting Hill, Changing Lanes, The
Mother, Enduring Love, Venus and Morning Glory. He has also directed two
documentaries for the BBC and a number of commercials.